Strong quake rocks Hokkaido

Cars are parked along a road damaged by a powerful 6.7-magnitude earthquake in Japan’s Hokkaido prefecture, in a photo taken early last month.— AFP/VNA Photo Viet Nam News A powerful magnitude-5.3 quake with a focus in Hokkaido’s central and eastern Iburi regions occurred at around 8:58 a.m on Friday. A lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 was felt in Atsuma, Mukawa and Biratori and 4 in Abira. No tsunami warning has been issued. — The Japan News/ANN